The Daily World columnist appreciated
I’m writing in response to Karen Barkstrom’s column “I’m not political but enough is enough.”
Karen, your words hit me like a bolt of lightning. I always read and enjoy all your columns, but this one?
This one said exactly what so many of us have been screaming inside our heads. You voiced the frustration, disbelief and sheer exhaustion that ordinary Americans feel as we watch this circus of an administration stumble from one disaster to the next.
I especially appreciated your honesty in saying you’re not a constitutional expert or political insider. Frankly, that’s why your voice matters. It’s the everyday, grounded people — not the pundits shouting over each other — who see the truth most clearly. You spoke with plain, hard-earned common sense, and it struck a nerve.
So thank you for having the courage to say what millions of us feel but don’t always say out loud: we want our country back. We want sanity back. We are living through a dark, chaotic chapter in our history, and it’s past time for people to stand up and say “enough.”
We are tired — beyond tired — of the bullying, the name-calling, the nonstop drama. We’re tired of Fox & Friends cosplay government obsessed with optics and performance instead of actual governing. We want competence. We want integrity. And we want a government that remembers its job is to serve the people — not to entertain, distract or divide us.
Thank you for daring to say it. More voices like yours are exactly what this country needs right now.
Dianne Hill
Aberdeen
DNR commissioner offers hocus pocus
In the Oct. 14 edition of your paper Washington Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove attempted to quell the hostile language that has erupted since his revelation of the idea to set aside 77,000 acres of “our” public forests run by the DNR.
It is all a hocus pocus, smoke and mirrors snow job. He says he is seeking new revenue sources to replace the money these acres would have generated.
He thinks we don’t realize that new revenue sources reads out as “added taxes.”
So, while he’s beating the salal brush with a stick looking for new ways to finance all the things that 77,000 acres of forest would have paid for, maybe we should investigate the procedures of recall or impeach.
Ray Messenger
Hoquiam
